Hemidrachm

Features

Issuer	Samothrace (Thracian Islands)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	500 BC - 475 BC
Value	Hemidrachm (½)
Currency	Drachma poddasza
Composition	Srebro
Weight	2.15 g
Diameter	13 mm
Shape	Okrągły (nieregularny)
Technique	Młotkowana, Incuse
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 147260
References	HGC 6# 304 Oliver D. Hoover; 2010. Handbook of Coins of the Islands / Volume 6: Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean, and Carpathian Seas (excluding Crete and Cyprus) : Sixth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States / London, United Kingdom. , SNG Copenhagen# 991 Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Royal Collection of Greek Coins. Danish National Museum. Copenhagen, Denmark (44 volumes). , SNG Lockett# 1211 Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson, Richard Cyril Lockett. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume III - The Lockett Collection. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (5 volumes). , SNG Berry# 505 Margaret Thompson, Robert Ross Holloway, Irwin L. Merker. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: The Burton Y. Berry Collection. American Numismatic Society, New York City, New York, United States (2 volumes). , Jameson# 2444 Robert Jameson. Collection R. Jameson. Feuardent, Paris, France (4 volumes). , CN type# 19399 Corpus Nummorum Online (https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/) , de Luynes# 2674 Jean Babelon, Louis Ciani (ed.), Jules Florange (ed.). Catalogue de la collection de Luynes - monnaies grecques. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France (4 volumes). , Traité II# 2674 Ernest Babelon; 1910. Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines / Partie 2.2. Description historique: Comprenant les monnaies de l'empire des Perses Achéménides, de l'orient sémitique et de l'Asie-mineure aux Ve et IVe siècles avant J.-C.. Éditions Ernest Leroux, Paris, France.

Obverse

Sfinks siedzący zwrócony w lewo Automatically translated

Reverse

Głowa ryczącego lwa zwrócona w lewo, w przerywanym, przecinającym się kwadracie Automatically translated

Mint

Samothrace, Insula Thraciae, modern-day Island of Samothrace, Greece

Comments

(en)

Schwabacher, Fund 9; Traité II, p. 1134, № 1962 and pl. CLIV, 16 (as Chios).

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (500 BC - 475 BC)							$ 4400	$ 7400

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Examples of the type

SNG Berry 505

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de Luynes 2674
Weight of this coin is unclear and vary from source to source
Traité II, p. 1134, № 1962 - weight 2.08 g
Catalogue de la collection de Luynes № 2674 - weight 3.08 g
Willy Schwabacher, Ein Fund Archaischer Münzen von Samothrake p. 112 - weight 2.08 g
Gallica web site - weight 4.02 g

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: Numismatica Ars Classica Auction 96 Lot 1059	6 Oct 2016	XF	USD 7535.59 (CHF 6000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG
	Heritage Auctions 2015 January 4 - 5 NYINC World Coins & Ancient Coins Signature Auction - New York 3037 Lot 29975	4 Jan 2015	XF (NGC Choice XF 5/5 - 5/5)	USD 7500.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Heritage Auctions
	Heritage Auctions 2013 April 18-19 & 22-23 CICF World & Ancient Coins Signature Auction - Chicago 3024 Lot 24625	18 Apr 2013	XF	USD 8250.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Heritage Auctions
	Gemini Auction XII Lot 82	11 Jan 2015	XF	Unsold
Ex Auctiones 20, 8-9 November 1990, lot 216; from the Kiourpet hoard 1930 (IGCH 696)
© Gemini Numismatic Auctions LLC
	CNG Triton V Lot 1332	16 Jan 2002	XF	USD 2850.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	Numismatik Lanz Auction 106 Lot 61	27 Nov 2001	XF	USD 942.62 (DEM 1600.00) (+ buyer's premium)
Ex L. Hamburger 96, October 25, 1932, Frankfurt am Main, 90; from W. Niggeler collection, Bank Leu AG - Münzen & Medaillen AG, December 3-4, 1965, Basel, 200; Leu Numismatik 54, April 28, 1992, Zurich, 62; from the Kiourpet hoard 1930 (IGCH 696)
© Numismatik Lanz Auctions
	CNG Auction 112 Lot 117	11 Sep 2019	VF	USD 5500.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	CNG Auction 66 Lot 327	19 May 2004	VF	USD 1600.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.